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pan6467 06-20-2005 01:12 PM

I have a Goth import collection called Kiss of the Vampyre and it has some winning groups on it:

Alien Sex fiend
Suspiria
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Damned
Specimen
Creaming Jesus
Midnight Configuration
Lords of the New Church
Flesh for Lulu
Scarehead
Echo and the Bunnymen
Bomb Party
Lucyfix
Die Lady Di
Screaming Dead
Christian Death
Gaye Bykers on Acid (my favorite verse...... sheep thief sheep thief you're a fucking sheep thief)

bob32 06-20-2005 01:33 PM

The Circle Jerks
Bad Acid Trip
Bear Vs. Shark
Leftover Crack

Bob Biter 06-21-2005 09:11 PM

Bad Yeggs
Bump of Chicken
Ripslyme

(All Japanese bands)

heroquest 06-21-2005 09:16 PM

best one: fuck.... i'm dead.

Gimmick 06-21-2005 10:49 PM

I never really found any band name weird except for one that always stuck in my mind: The Butthole Surfers!

noodle 07-07-2005 08:53 PM

i know this is an older thread, but i couldn't resist.

cystic dysentery (ow!)
nailshitter (OW!)
suffocate faster
from a second story window
if scars could speak
big in georgia (you've got to be kidding me!)
fear before the march of flames
kiss army and hollyweird
gutterboy
spicoli
odoyle rules
wounds from a friend
mystic dino and the 420 band

my all time favorite? rabid pussy.
welcome to florida, y'all. kick back and we'll duel you some banjos.

Johnny Pyro 07-09-2005 05:38 AM

Hootie and the Blowfish
Thunder Cock

h2ogo69 07-12-2005 06:04 AM

goodspeed you black emperor
butthole surfers
huskur du
jaga jazzist
oysterhead

drewpy 07-12-2005 06:20 AM

i always liked

ebn-ozn
geggy tah
ODW (our daughters wedding)
OMD (orchestral maneuveres in the dark)

Martian 07-13-2005 05:28 AM

Neutral Milk Hotel

Most indie bands have kind of odd names. Modest Mouse is a prominent indie band (ironically now unpopular with the indie crowd because they went 'mainstream') that's relatively tame compared to a lot of what's out there.

I think it has to do with the thoery of indie relativity. In Indie circles the more obscure a band is, the better it is. A strange name protects the band's obscurity.

There are those out there searching for the perfect indie band, the one band that has achieved perfection by not being known to anyone. The problem is that it's a quest doomed to failure because as soon as the questor finds the band they're no longer completely unheard of and instantly fall from grace.

God of Thunder 07-14-2005 04:49 AM

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Was (not Was)
A-Ha!
Lipps, Inc!
Air Supply
M
Pure Prarie League
Climax Blues Band
Haircut 100
Men Without Hats
'Til Tuesday
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD)
Scritti Politti
Bananarama
Wang Chung
T'Pau
Johnny Hates Jazz
Milli Vanilli
Fine Young Cannibals
Iron Butterfly
Strawberry Alarm Clock




All of those names came from my own personal collection by the way.

PoweredByPorn 07-14-2005 10:21 AM

Damnit, you beat me to 'em.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Derwood
Revolting Cocks
1000 Homo DJ's

Those two were my first thoughts when I read the thread title.

I'll also add Strapping Young Lad, which isn't too strange on its own, but when attatched to a death metal band, seems a bit out of place.

...and: God What an Aweful Racket (GWAR... it's just funnier to me when spelled out in full)

Senor Roboto 07-14-2005 01:03 PM

The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Percy Hill
Phi-life Cypher
the polyphonic spree
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower

FloydianOne 07-14-2005 02:52 PM

I was going to name my band "Starving Jack-Rabbit Stampede".... its a long story.

Tophat665 07-14-2005 06:42 PM

Blue Öyster Cult is far to cool to be funny, but I'll surely grant you peculiar.

Seconding Porcupine Tree, Flaming Lips, and Anal Cunt.

Also They Might Be Giants (Comes from a George C. Scott film) and Archers of Loaf.

Jethro Tull was the name of a fellow in 16th (?) century England who invented an improved steel seed drill.

May favorites have been local though:
Fattie Deluxe and the Jolly Llamas
The Tao Jonez Combustibles
Aavant Gaardvark
Döktör Göatlöad (fratenity brother's short lived metal band. Dead of a surfiet of umlauts)
and a med school band I heard of: Rod Bacillus and the Streptones.

ktspktsp 07-14-2005 07:39 PM

I am Kloot
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Flaming Lips
Mercury Rev
Death in Vegas
Trashmonk
The Third Eye Foundation
The No Smoking Orchestra
Sparklehorse

And they're all good bands too :)

QuasiMojo 07-15-2005 05:23 PM

heh heh

Jew Boy.
Rapscallian...
:*




................
: )
I can't compete with "SparkleHorse"

I give up!
(JEEEZUZ Tophat...Doctor Goatload!!!! Hole Lee!!!!!!!!!!

ARauckhorst 07-15-2005 10:11 PM

Looking through my itunes I've encountered the following which are rather odd to me:

Athenaeum
Hey Mercedes
Pedro the Lion
Tahiti 80
Piebald
Minus the Bear
Gatsby's American Dream
Atreyu

all very good bands save tahiti 80

Stick 07-15-2005 11:16 PM

Couple of Sydney based pub bands from the 1980's.
Plug Uglies
Pork Hunts

iwhore 07-17-2005 02:52 PM

Say Hi To Your Mom
A Farewell to Arms
Circle Takes The Square
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Between The Buried and Me
Sneaker Pimps
Mogawi
Horse The Band
Spoon

OuterHeaven 07-19-2005 06:02 AM

The Circle Jerks,
Ebenezer Splooge,
Tenacious D <3

Martian 07-20-2005 12:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tophat665
Also They Might Be Giants (Comes from a George C. Scott film)...

Does it really? I always just assumed it was a Don Quixote reference.

Oh.. and umm.. Death Cab For Cutie.

DazednConfused 07-20-2005 02:09 AM

Screaming Headless Torsos
Bowling for Soup
Dead Eye Dick
Kajagoogoo
The Flying Frog Brigade
? and the Mysterians (Yes his name is really "?")
Stone Temple Pilots
Hoobastank (what the hell is that?)

and a band my husband used to be in: Mojo Bobfoot

oldbob 08-08-2005 08:10 PM

Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Nurse with Wound
Throbbing Gristle
Rudimentary Peni
The Soft Pink Truth
The Revolting Cocks
MC 900 Foot Jesus
Jackie-O Motherfucker

And in the vein of Steely Dan, there's Arab Strap - the best dang glaswegian band named after a... well... you know... ever.

Draconis 08-09-2005 09:20 AM

Oedipus Rex and the Mamma's Boys
Hey There, Hi There, Ho There
Velvet Acid Christ
Corpus Delecti
616 Abortions
What Ever Happened To Mary Lou?
The Winter of Our Discontent (a joke emo band spoof my frat bro and I did: W.O.O.D. )
Del Tha Phunkee Homosapien

mystmarimatt 08-09-2005 12:50 PM

Not so much a singular band, but I've always been fond of that fashion of band names being extricated parts of sentences, like Less Than Jake, Minus The Bear...There are others, but I can't remember basically any right now.

The5thCandidate 08-10-2005 08:32 AM

Thrush Hermit
Reggie and the Full Effect
Mull Historical Society
Her Space Holiday
The Decemberists
Clem Snide

gnort 08-10-2005 01:06 PM

Alabama Thunder Pussy
The Mr. T Experience

springhaze 08-10-2005 04:40 PM

Death Cab For Cutie
Skunk Anansie

thebrent 08-10-2005 06:17 PM

There's a local band in my area called Abortion Grenade. They're pretty horrible, but the name is pretty awesome

QuasiMojo 12-10-2005 01:19 AM

mein gott

is all goot

Shpoop 12-11-2005 12:39 AM

Q and not U....haha thats hilarious

Val_1 12-11-2005 10:38 AM

Legendary Stardust Cowboy (not a band, a performer, but odd, just the same)

frankx 01-01-2006 09:15 AM

Glossy Flashpig
Jehovah's Angry Foot

Mantus 01-02-2006 08:57 PM

I think the strangest named band I have on my play list is

Architecture in Helsinki

streak_56 01-02-2006 09:21 PM

Cradle of Filth

killeena 01-08-2006 11:13 PM

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Old Man's Child
Strapping Young Lad

art of leaving 01-08-2006 11:50 PM

REO Speedwagon
Ear Wacks
Alien Ant Farm
Dildo Warheads
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Frou Frou
Chumbawumba
Crash Test Dummies

burtsbees 01-15-2006 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martian
Neutral Milk Hotel

Most indie bands have kind of odd names. Modest Mouse is a prominent indie band (ironically now unpopular with the indie crowd because they went 'mainstream') that's relatively tame compared to a lot of what's out there.

I think it has to do with the thoery of indie relativity. In Indie circles the more obscure a band is, the better it is. A strange name protects the band's obscurity.

There are those out there searching for the perfect indie band, the one band that has achieved perfection by not being known to anyone. The problem is that it's a quest doomed to failure because as soon as the questor finds the band they're no longer completely unheard of and instantly fall from grace.


I completely agree with you. When people find that band no one has ever heard of that plays decent music, it's such a grand discovery. Sometimes, I find people who like to show this off in conversation: "Have you ever heard of _______? No? You should listen to them, they're soooo good."

my list includes:

Architecture and Helsinky
I am the World Trade Center
(made BEFORE 9/11, of course)

CyCo PL 01-18-2006 06:20 PM

hmm, let me go thru my winamp library and see what I can find

1000 homo dj's
Bullring Brummies (both off of the black sabbath tribute album)
Cake
Death Cab for Cutie
Del the Funky Homosapien
The Dismemberment Plan
Dying Fetus
Eagles of Death Metal
Eels
Fairyland
Flaming Lips
Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nuclear Rabbit
Prong
Psychostick
Sausage
Smashing Pumpkins
Spineshank
Stuck Mojo
Three Mile Pilot
Ugly Casanova

lots of those have already been listed before, but they're all pretty strange


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